Troon Portland Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 For a change, thought I'd post a positive thread about the fixtures in Junior football!Great to see a common sense approach to posting weeks of fixtures in advance, we have plenty of time to arrange sponsorship, hospitality, travel buses & all the other things involved in running a football club. Really does make such a difference. Not only that, (assuming all games go ahead) we will have played all other 11 teams in the Premier League in the first half of the season which is great. An excellent step forward.Well done fixtures man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glensmad Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Crawlers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troon Portland Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 Crawlers. Haha, I expected that! Credit where credit is due to be fair, I've been critical in the past & asked for more notice for games & now it's happened, only fair to give him a pat on the back. Long may it continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kochice Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 While it's good for some clubs its decidedly poor for others. Irvine Meadow have just played their first home game in six weeks, a cup tie, & have only one more home game scheduled before Christmas. They will have played 4 league games at home and 7 away by then. We still have to play 4 teams in the league but will have played two twice, assuming Saturday's game goes ahead. We all know regular income is vital to clubs but the way things are going we're going to have a lot of midweek home games which will inevitably mean less income than we would get for weekend games. It shouldn't be too difficult to organise league fixtures at the start of the season so that each team gets a fair allocation of regular home & away games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLadeside Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 While it's good for some clubs its decidedly poor for others. Irvine Meadow have just played their first home game in six weeks, a cup tie, & have only one more home game scheduled before Christmas. They will have played 4 league games at home and 7 away by then. We still have to play 4 teams in the league but will have played two twice, assuming Saturday's game goes ahead. We all know regular income is vital to clubs but the way things are going we're going to have a lot of midweek home games which will inevitably mean less income than we would get for weekend games. It shouldn't be too difficult to organise league fixtures at the start of the season so that each team gets a fair allocation of regular home & away games. Ladeside got that last season 1 home game in x amount of games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superpollok Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 While it's good for some clubs its decidedly poor for others. Irvine Meadow have just played their first home game in six weeks, a cup tie, & have only one more home game scheduled before Christmas. They will have played 4 league games at home and 7 away by then. We still have to play 4 teams in the league but will have played two twice, assuming Saturday's game goes ahead. We all know regular income is vital to clubs but the way things are going we're going to have a lot of midweek home games which will inevitably mean less income than we would get for weekend games. It shouldn't be too difficult to organise league fixtures at the start of the season so that each team gets a fair allocation of regular home & away games. You can't just look at league games for the balance of home /away matches at this stage in the season. With cup matches this season Meadow have had 10 home and 12 away games by Christmas. That is nearly every alternative week at home. So it's really not that bad. I know cup is split gate, however there is other income that home games bring that isn't gate money. You could also get a run of home league games in January and Feburary way before the end of season mid week games. So I wouldn't be moaning just yet. P.s Meadow are at home on 12th and 19th December - both before Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kochice Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 You can't just look at league games for the balance of home /away matches at this stage in the season. With cup matches this season Meadow have had 10 home and 12 away games by Christmas. That is nearly every alternative week at home. So it's really not that bad. I know cup is split gate, however there is other income that home games bring that isn't gate money. You could also get a run of home league games in January and Feburary way before the end of season mid week games. So I wouldn't be moaning just yet. P.s Meadow are at home on 12th and 19th December - both before Christmas. Only three home games since start of October & two of those were cup ties. On the weeks following the first & second rounds of the Scottish Cup Meadow were scheduled to play home league games. However, their opponents, Petershill & Kilbirnie drew their games, which went to replays. However instead of giving them home games against different opponents they were given away games. I see that the fixture for 19 December has been changed since my orginal post yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Only three home games since start of October & two of those were cup ties. On the weeks following the first & second rounds of the Scottish Cup Meadow were scheduled to play home league games. However, their opponents, Petershill & Kilbirnie drew their games, which went to replays. However instead of giving them home games against different opponents they were given away games. I see that the fixture for 19 December has been changed since my orginal post yesterday. Just noticed they have been changed, we were originally down to host Irvine Meadow on the 19th, now we are at home to Arthurlie while Meadow host Kilbirnie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertha/BJFC1938 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 The thing I just don't get is why does he deprive of us of any genuine fixture list of say three games in advance at any time of the season and then he steams in and gives us them in advance of scottish junior cup ties?? Surely the worst possible time you can try and hand out fixtures in advance is anywhere near scottish cup tie replays / numerous postponements and this is something he's done now for the last few rounds. And the scottish cup really needs to be kept away from November / December /January as much as possible which is our three worst weather months traditionally. Not saying it's easy but a few quick scheduled scottish cup fixtures outwith it could maybe balance it up . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larky55 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I have to disagree with you about the worst weather being in Dec, Jan, & Feb, H. Remember the scenes from The Old Course, St Andrews. That was on July. At Larky we were playing golf tournaments into October to get the season finished. Last Saturday the weather was dreadful, but up until then, the weather has been decent for football. Not looking good for this Saturday though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Prez Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I have to disagree with you about the worst weather being in Dec, Jan, & Feb, H. Remember the scenes from The Old Course, St Andrews. That was on July. At Larky we were playing golf tournaments into October to get the season finished. Last Saturday the weather was dreadful, but up until then, the weather has been decent for football. Not looking good for this Saturday though. Golf then???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeverleyHills Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Cumbernauld have played 1 home game since 12th September with 1 cancelled due to the weather.There have been 7 away including 4 cup ties 2 Scottish and 2 West.The luck of the draw in the cup makes all the difference but 2 home games to look forward to subject to the weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I've all been for defending the guy,however next week totally defies any logic at all,back of a flag packet planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fan of the juniors Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 I've all been for defending the guy,however next week totally defies any logic at all,back of a flag packet planning. Gave you my opinion last night . Doesn't surprise me in the slightest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Next week's fixtures came out a fortnight ago, how was he supposed to know that Beith's replay would be off twice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 No team should go from 3rd Oct until 9th Jan without a home league game. Try defending that? We had our free week when Peasies played final, why give us another and teams who have played 4 games more have a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fan of the juniors Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Next week's fixtures came out a fortnight ago, how was he supposed to know that Beith's replay would be off twice? Knew this would be the case when Beiths game was called off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lang Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 No team should go from 12th Sept until 9th Jan without a home league game. Try defending that? We had our free week when Peasies played final, why give us another and teams who have played 4 games more have a game. U cant and it's the same every season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadow30 Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 after next week if the weather improves teams will have played in the league. pollok 11 shettleston 10 meadow 9 glenafton 9 peasy 8 arthurlie 8 hurlford 8 beith 8 rob roy 7 talbot 6 kilbirnie 6 the simple way is a change of fixtures with pollok given a free week and kilbirnie play rob roy. we at meadow know how you feel. nothing worse than potential midweek fixtures and the south side heroes have a nice saturday fixture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sancho Panza Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 That was the obvious change but it does appear to be rocket science, at least the pitch will be in good nick. Forgot we played Shettleston on 3rd Oct but you get the gist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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